Mideast war displaces 100,000 in Lebanon in single day: UN

Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli air strike that targeted an area in the southern suburbs of Beirut.—AFP

GENEVA: Israeli strikes and mass evacuation orders have seen nearly 700,000 people flee their homes in Lebanon in just over a week, with more than 100,000 leaving in 24 hours, the UN said on Tuesday.

“Lives have been upended on a massive scale,” said Karolina Lindholm Billing, the representative in Lebanon of UNHCR, the United Nations refugee agency.

In just over a week since the new escalation in Lebanon...